sword dance sword dancing | any of various dances by men who step nimbly over swords or flourish them in the air |
king vulture Sarcorhamphus papa | large black-and-white vulture of South America and Central America, have colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on head and neck |
king snake kingsnake | any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors, feed on other snakes and small mammals |
hamadryad king cobra Ophiophagus hannah Naja hannah | large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, the largest venomous snake, sometimes placed in genus Naja |
horseshoe crab king crab Limulus polyphemus Xiphosurus polyphemus | large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail, a living fossil related to the wood louse |
king crab Alaska crab Alaskan king crab Alaska king crab Paralithodes camtschatica | large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan |
European spider crab king crab Maja squinado | a large spider crab of Europe |
king penguin Aptenodytes patagonica | large penguin on islands bordering the Antarctic Circle |
King Charles spaniel | a toy English spaniel with a black-and-tan coat, named after Charles II who popularized it |
lion king of beasts Panthera leo | large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male |
chinook chinook salmon king salmon quinnat salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | large Pacific salmon valued as food, adults die after spawning |
oarfish king of the herring ribbonfish Regalecus glesne | thin deep-water tropical fishtofeet long having a red dorsal fin |
king whiting Menticirrhus americanus | whiting of the southeastern coast of North America |
king mackerel cavalla cero Scomberomorus cavalla | large mackerel with long pointed snout, important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil |
cavalry sword saber sabre | a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back |
Excalibur | the legendary sword of King Arthur |
fencing sword | a sword used in the sport of fencing |
king | (chess) the weakest but the most important piece |
king | one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king |
king | a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward |
king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
Round Table King Arthur's Round Table | (legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights |
sword blade brand steel | a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard |
sword cane sword stick | a cane concealing a sword or dagger |
sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword |
Authorized Version King James Version King James Bible | an English translation of the Bible published in |
King's English Queen's English | English as spoken by educated persons in southern England |
Alaska king crab Alaskan king crab king crab Alaska crab | meat of large cold-water crab, mainly leg meat |
chinook salmon chinook king salmon | pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon |
Abu Sayyaf Bearer of the Sword | a small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines, uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping, In Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives |
legendary creature | a monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual |
Oedipus King Oedipus Oedipus Rex | (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta, the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles |
Lear King Lear | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters |
baron big businessman business leader king magnate mogul power top executive tycoon | a very wealthy or powerful businessman, an oil baron |
king male monarch Rex | a male sovereign, ruler of a kingdom |
King of England King of Great Britain | the sovereign ruler of England |
King of France | the sovereign ruler of France |
King of the Germans | the sovereign ruler of the Germans |
king queen world-beater | a competitor who holds a preeminent position |
King's Counsel | Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king |
sea king | a Viking pirate chief |
Arthur King Arthur | a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure), said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot |
Ferdinand King Ferdinand Ferdinand of Aragon Ferdinand V Ferdinand the Catholic | the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella, his marriage to Isabella I in marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in united Spain as one country, they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in (-) |
Gillette King Camp Gilette | United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (-) |
Goodman Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman King of Swing | United States clarinetist who in formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (-) |
Harold I King Harold I Harold Harefoot Harefoot | illegitimate son of Canute who seized the throne of England in(died in ) |
Harold II King Harold II | King of England who succeeded Edward the Confessor inand was the last of the Anglo-Saxon monarchs, he was killed fighting the invasion by William the Conqueror (-) |
Hussein Husain Husayn ibn Talal Hussein King Hussein | king of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (-) |
James James I King James King James I | the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland fromto and king of Scotland from to , he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I, he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (-) |
John King John John Lackland | youngest son of Henry II, King of England from to , succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I, lost his French possessions, in John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (-) |